On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote: > I am new to Debian Linux and I am having problems with xdm and fvwm. > When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at > login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4. Now, I > am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the > /etc/inittab. I am obviously missing some key point, can anyone help?
To get xdm going: 1) change /etc/X11/config to start xdm (i.e. remove the no- ). Mine looks like # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README no-run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm xdm-start-server 2) Make sure an X server is specified in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers something like # xbase and xserver configuration scripts. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 3) Edit any other files that you wich to customize in /etc/X11/xdm 4) run /etc/init.d/xdm start I may have forgotten something, but that should work. > Also, when I startx manually, the system will not use my .fvwmrc. I get > too many errors to list here, but all I did was copy the > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm to my $HOME/.fvwmrc and tried to add > an additional xterm at start-up, and change to setroot color to solid > SteelBlue. > I don't believe these changes made any impact because when I keep the > defaults in my .fvwmrc, and try and refresh fvwm, I get the same errors. I use fvwm2 but don't really know what could be wrong. Could you list the first 10 or 20 lines of errors? Also, is there a chance that you are using an old fvwm script with fvwm2? You can convert it with /usr/doc/fvwm2/utils/fvwmrc_convert Let me know if that helps. Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
